Influenza : $b An epidemiologic studyVaughan, Warren T. (Warren Taylor)
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Influenza : $b An epidemiologic study
Vaughan, Warren T. (Warren Taylor)
Influenza
Again, in 1890, Dr. Bruce Low studied the development of influenza at
East Keal, a town of 300 inhabitants. We quote in part his description:
“The following is believed to have been the commencement of the
outbreak, and for these facts I am indebted to Dr. Francis Walker,
Medical Officer of Health, Spilsby, R. S. D. Mrs. N., residing at East
Keal Hall, went to London (Forest Hill) on a visit on November 11th. She
visited Barnum’s Show on November 13th. She became ill on the night of
the 14th. Her symptoms were those of a cold, attended with sore throat.
No one else so far as she knew was ill in this way in the house before
her. She left Forest Hill on November 16th, still feeling very unwell,
and went to stay with friends at Kensington. She was too ill to return
home till November 23d, at which time she was still feeling very weak.
She heard from Forest Hill that, directly after she left one of the
inmates of the house where she had been visiting fell ill with symptoms
similar to her own. Within a few days, probably about the 27th of
November (the exact date is not fixed), of her return home, her son,
aged four, became unwell with what appeared to be an ordinary cold, but
the child had epistaxis; he soon recovered, but during the next
fortnight the four servants in the house were ill with what were said to
be ‘colds,’ one of them also had epistaxis. On January 2d another son,
aged six, was ill with ‘cold’ for a few days; he went out and had a
relapse, which compelled him to stay in the house for another week.
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